Letter from a Millennial

The Phoenix and Olive Branch blog is hosting an open letter from a millennial or “Gen Y” member to the Baby Boomers and Generation X that mounts a strong defence of the generation born after 1980. In it the author writes that the older generations need to stop telling Generation Y that they’re not special. The author’s basic thesis is that Gen Y high school and university graduates are walking into a world that doesn’t have a place for them. The economy is tight, she says, and Gen Y is now facing challenges that few, if any, previous generations had to confront. And on top of it all, she and her generational cohorts are getting dumped on. It’s an impassioned essay, to be sure, and it’s emblematic of the feelings of Gen Y members who believe they’ve been dealt a bad hand.